father Quotes
The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
Confucius
The wish is the father of the deed.
American Proverb
I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.
Mark Twain
Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.
Mary Ellen Chase
A great part of the pleasure of travel lies in the fulfillment of early wishes to escape the family and especially the father
Sigmund Freud
A son should inherit his father's money - not his religion; he may be too lazy to build upon a new fortune but never too slow to catch up with a new creed.
Unknown
Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks
Goldman, Emma
Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast; It's that confounded cucumber I've ate and can't digest.
Richard Harris Barham
The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat
Robert Lee Frost
I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.
Robert Morgan
For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time.
Alan Valentine
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
Austin O'Malley
A father is a banker provided by nature.
Proverb
